Apropos of something, remembered that time 14 years ago, when, as brash first-year undergrads who'd been assigned Rethinking History, we cold e-mailed Keith Jenkins setting out our point-by-point disagreements with his book.
He responded with a respectful defence of his views.
He responded with a respectful defence of his views.
Guess I remembered this today because we were as cocky a bunch of 18-year-olds as any, but our reaction to someone who we thought was dead wrong was to enthusiastically seek them out to try and talk to them.
As students, we'd never have thought of trolling them on public forums.
As students, we'd never have thought of trolling them on public forums.
Or maybe we were just lucky that Twitter didn't exist back then.
Anyway, that very early encounter with Keith Jenkins - who absolutely did not need to reply to our nonsense - taught me a lot about intellectual generosity (I remain, no doubt, an imperfect student), so - thank you, prof!
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